Posts Tagged ‘People’
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Commentary: Seminole County Matters
Jim Hartmann, Seminole county government’s new County Manager, commenting on why Seminole County matters. Length – 04:03
Photos – Charles E. Miller
New Gun Law
In 2011 the Florida Legislature passed a law which imposes penalties on city and county governments that do not repeal all local gun ordinances. Local laws prohibiting guns in parks, in government buildings or shooting within city limits were eliminated throughout the state on October 1. This new law provoked a controversy that can be heard in this feature as supporters like Rep. Jason Brodeur and opponents like City of Oviedo Police Chief Jeff Chudnow and Leigh McEachern speak out. Length 21:34
Produced, reported and edited by Desta Horner
Homeless Senior Citizens
Hear a discussion about the rising number of homeless senior citizens in Seminole County, Fl., those 60 years of age or older. Karen Harmon, housing coordinator of Seminole Behavioral Health Care in Sanford; Barbara Fore, elder crimes and services investigator with the Seminole County Sheriff’s office; and Susan Mooty, a 61 year old local homeless woman offer their on-the-ground perspective. The event is hosted by SACSON – Seminole Action Coalition Serving Our Needy.
Feature Length — 53:36
Photos – Charles E. Miller
Steamboats in Florida
From the 1870’s to the 1900’s steamboats and paddle wheelers traveled the rivers of Florida. It was a time of hardscrabble farming and frontier tourism. Ed L’Heureux gives a presentation to the Oviedo Historical Society about this critical transportation link during the post civil war period in Florida. Length 17:29
Hiding in the Spotlight
On this Heard in Central Florida you’ll hear remarks from Greg Dawson, author of Hiding in the Spotlight – A Musical Prodigy’s Story of Survival…spoken at the 16th annual Teachers Institute on Holocaust Studies presented by the Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida. Mitchell Bloomer, the Holocaust Center’s Resource Teacher, introduces author Greg Dawson Feature Length — 45:13
On Being Gay in Central Florida
June is recognized in the U. S. as Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender month. Marking that occasion, Central Florida Matters interviews Dr. Michelle Stephan, a gay woman, on the satisfaction and challenges of life as a gay person in Seminole County. With her partner, Stephan has found a neighborhood of friends as they raised a son in Oviedo; yet, she is also aware of the inequality and hostility that she faced being gay in Central Florida. Feature length – 24:33
Produced, reported and edited by Desta Horner, photo “Balões” courtesy Felipe (Aladim) Hadler.
George O’Leary – UCF Head Football Coach
Hear remarks from George O’Leary, head football coach at the University of Central Florida offered recently at the Oviedo-Winter Springs Regional Chamber of Commerce members’ luncheon.
Feature Length — 28:11
Seminole County’s New Manager
It’s been more than a year and a half since Seminole County Government was administered by a permanent county manager. But now, the board of county commissioners has taken action to put a new county manager in place. They have hired James Hartmann who will take over in June 2011.
Feature length – 16:58
Park Avenue History Alive!
The history of Park Avenue comes alive as Winter Park, Florida community leaders portray some of the earliest citizens. Dressed in period costumes, participants recount life from the 1880’s to the 1930’s along Park Avenue. Take a stroll down the street and listen as Kenneth Murrah, Thad Seymour, Jack Rogers, Alice Bass and Steve Schoene bring the past to life at the Fifth Annual James Gamble Rogers Colloquium on Historic Preservation on April 27, 2011
Homelessness: A Community Conversation
Feature Length 27:14
To more effectively address the issue of homelessness in Seminole County Florida, the community services department of county government convened the second in a series of meetings of providers of services to the homeless community. CMF public media sat in to record the conversations that took place.
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